Macrobiotic food proteins

Macrobiotic

To the question if macrobiotic (or strict vegetarians, vegans) help to improve state of health, couldn't be answered easily. From the one point is advantage of these nourishing methods high supply of fruits and vegetables and low volume fats in the menu. But big amount of important nutrients is missing. So it depends very much on that, how are your knowledges about sources of proteins, vitamins and minerals, to not be exposed to their deficiency.

Proteins - vegetal foods may be good source of proteins, however it depends on that, how they are combined together. Complete protein is made for example from proteins of soya and wheat. .
Minerals - high intake of fibre typical for macrobiotic (so big as 60 g - hence two times the recommended daily dosage) may disrupt absorbtion of calcium, zinc and iron, even in the case when they are enough in the food.
Vitamins - one of the most heavy reproach towards macrobiotic is prohibition of consumption of crops from other climatic zones. That's why in the winter is not possible to eat south fruits and similar. If we compare the volume of C vitamin in mandarins and apples, it's sufficient to cover of daily dosage either 2 mandarins or 2 kg of apples. Ofcourse that recommended cabbage is also very good source of vitamin C, but it would be necessary of 200 g fresh cabbage daily and it would mean to it this amount every day. Macrobiotic is so narrowing possibilities of selection in the scope of fruits and vegetables.

As macrobiotic, so vegetarians recommend many health benefical foods (tofu, tempeh, seitan and similar). These foods is however better to line up to mixed menus.


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